Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: Campus control; Higher ed CRM; New Dynamics 365 partner; AX & fresh produce

By:  Linda Rosencrance Campus Management Extends CampusNexus Platform Campus Management Corp., a provider of enterprise solutions and services for higher education, has announced that its CampusNexus solution now includes enterprise adoption of Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Dynamics 365; and Office 365. The CampusNexus suite includes student, constituent relationship management and finance, HR and payroll applications. […]

Supply chain: What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX7), Part 1

By:  Rahul Mohta Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a new approach to business applications which brings together Dynamics CRM, AX, NAV and Office 365 strengths with a unified application platform and a common data service (known until very recently as a “common data model”). Common data service is going to be the backbone and foundation of […]

NetSuite’s Pre-Oracle Curtain Call: Growth and Costs Increase

By:  Gavin Clarke NetSuite closed in typical fashion what promised to be the final quarter before it is subsumed by Oracle – growth in turnover continued, as did operating overheads and losses. The cloudy ERP firm reported Q3 results for the period ended September, while reiterating it will not give guidance for the fourth quarter […]

What’s new in Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX7) – Financials, Part 2

By: Yogesh Kasat Microsoft unveiled Dynamics 365 for Operations – Financials (known before as AX7) at the AXUG 2016 Summit, and offered details on its functionality on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations Roadmap portal. Between the AXUG sessions and the portal, there is considerable information to sort out, which I hope to do in […]

CafeX plans broad Microsoft Dynamics 365 integration for omnichannel customer engagement

By:  Linda Rosencrance Microsoft has selected CafeX Communications, a provider of WebRTC-based mobile and web engagement solutions, to be its preferred omnichannel customer service solution provider for Microsoft Dynamics 365. The companies are working together to develop a roadmap as well as a go-to-market collaboration to ensure ongoing and proactive integration of CafeX’s omnichannel capabilities […]

Artificial Intelligence is Transforming ERP Solutions

By: Baas de Baat Without a doubt, artificial intelligence (AI) will have a profound impact on the footprint of enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions in the foreseeable future. AI will enable organizations to further optimize their operating model made up of business processes, software applications, governance structures and technology infrastructure. “If you don’t innovate fast, […]

What’s new in Dynamics 365 for Operations (AX7) – Financials, Part 1

By:  Yogesh Kasat AXUG Summit 2016 was a great opportunity to learn Microsoft’s vision for Dynamics products, Dynamics 365 in particular. I attended several sessions to learn what’s coming in the Financials module, and was very impressed by the speed at which Microsoft is delivering new features in Dynamics 365 for Operations – Financials (known […]

Clueless CIO cloud confusion continues

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols You have got to be kidding me. At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, the research company’s annual enterprise IT conference, Gartner vice president David Mitchell Smith said, “In many ways we’re nowhere nearer understanding what cloud is.” Oh, come on! The year is 2016, but Smith continued, “There are still a lot of […]